Protests in Saudi Arabia and the US Wahabbi Nexus

FROM AMBASSADOR GAJENDRA SINGH

I have gone on a limb , since last few years stating that unless the Saudi Dynasty is removed ,its symbiotic alliance with Wahabbis will keep the Muslims backwards and looking to Riyadh from its excess petrodollars for Qurans, mosques, and funds for Jihadis and terrorists in non-Muslim and even Muslim countries  (Crown Prince Hassan used to bemoan to me in Amman).

It is no secret that Washington provides protection and security (why no coups or regime changes in GCC ) to Saud Dynasty in exchange for exploitation of ME oil and promoting US interests .US along with UK, Israel and Saud dynasty/Wahabbis and Pk Army/ISI is the real axis of evil or Septagon of evil responsible for keeping Muslims backwards and under dictatorship.

The US-Saudi-Wahabi Nexus !

 

"History is ruled by an inexorable determinism in which the free choice of major historical figures plays a minimal role", Leo Tolstoy

 

By K Gajendra Singh  www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16041.htm

 

 

01/01/07 "Information Clearing House" -- -- When the powerful US Vice-President Dick Cheney made a rare long haul to Riyadh in November , reportedly it was to create against Iran , Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon , a new US led Sunni alliance in the region, composed of   the six Gulf Co-operation Council states, pro-US Arab governments in Cairo and Amman and willing NATO allies with covert support from Israel.----- 

But donot hold your breath .Democracy , even like US (2000 elections ) or India's (thoroughly corrupt and callous ) will emerge .First step will be military rule .Does Riyadh have a military.From which tribes it recruits soldiers  !!. 

Once the fat is in fire in the Gulf where millions of Indians are employed.What will happen .

I had evacuated 138,000 Indians by air from Amman in 1990-91 .I know how disorganised MEA and the govt is .

Persia , which used to influence events upto Eastern Libya, across Dardanelles and later contest Iraq with Romans and Byzantines , must be watching and trying to influence the events .

I used to enjoy having the French and Iranian ambassadors for lunch and watch them discussing the events .The Iranian , a former Pasardani ( intelligence ) was alleged to have encouraged the Kuwaitis , while posted there in 1990s to defy the Iraqis .With what results ! He was later declared persona non-grata and had to leave Turkey.

We would have enjoyed the fun if we were not saddled with a dysfunctional anarchy .

Cheers and take care 

.....surprise surprise, Al Jazeera/BBC etc. forgot this one.....sshhh the saudi regime is nice and friendly to Qatar and (most important) to the US, even to Israel!!!!

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Protests build across Saudi Arabia

By Abeer Allam in Riyadh

Published: March 4 2011 22:05 | Last updated: March 4 2011 22:05

Demonstrators staged a rare rally after Friday prayers in Riyadh, marking the first such protest in the Saudi capital, as the kingdom braced itself for an Egypt-inspired "Friday of Rage" next week.

Meanwhile, small protests continued in the oil-rich Eastern Province towns of al-Ahsa and Qateef, with demonstrators demanding the release of political prisoners.

In Riyadh, security helicopters hovered over protesters gathered in front of Al-Rajhi mosque, in the east of the capital, in what an unknown opposition group described as a "Friday of mobilisation".

Some protesters chanted "thieves, thieves, where is the 200bn", "God is great", and "God will destroy the arrogant and unjust", as well as "peaceful, peaceful".

Meanwhile, in a YouTube internet video seen by the Financial Times, a man carried a banner that said "Youth of March 4". The video claimed that 2,000 people took part in the rally, later dispersed by police. Others said there were merely dozens of protesters. It was not possible to verify either estimate.

It is not clear who was behind the protests, or who the "Youth of March 4" are, though they are apparently inspired by Egypt's "Youth of April 6".

Pro-democracy activist Mohamed Fahd al-Qahtani said at least half of those who led the protests support the London-based Islamist opposition Saad al-Faqih. Others, he said, are frustrated citizens with no affiliation.

"There is a general sense of disappointment, people want serious reforms," said Mr Qahtani. "There is a different mood now inspired by Egyptian and Tunisian revolts and the current uprising in Libya. People want the government to show real intention for reform. They feel worthless; we lag behind other countries and excluded from the political process."

In Saudi Arabia protests and public displays of dissent are outlawed. The government has become increasingly nervous about the protests that have taken the Arab world by storm, toppling the Egyptian and Tunisian presidents, and which recently reached Oman and Bahrain. Saudi reformists had hoped that after King Abdullah returned from a three-month medical trip to the US and Morocco, he would announce reforms. Instead, he announced an estimated SR135bn ($36bn) in financial and unemployment benefit measures.

"This is a very proud family, they do not want to be seen as afraid of instability that is shaking other regimes," said a western analyst close to members of the royal family. "They will take their time because they do not want to be seen as succumbing to pressure."

Waleed Sulais, a Shia activist, said: "The government is very tense right now. The authorities do not like mosques or Friday sermons being used to discuss politics, they warned against it. But the numbers are increasing every day as people become bolder. There has to be serious steps [towards reform] or anger will explode."

The governor of the Eastern Province is reportedly meeting with leading Shia figures tomorrow to discuss grievances, including release of so-called "forgotten prisoners".

Separately, anti-government protests resumed in Bahrain on Friday amid rising sectarian tensions. Demonstrators marched from government buildings to the Pearl roundabout, the focal point for the youth-driven movement demanding the downfall of the government.

Fights broke out between Shias and Sunnis in the country on Thursday night, raising the spectre of sectarian violence.

As protests enter their third week, the street battles mark the first escalation into intercommunal violence, amid increasingly bitter rhetoric.

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